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- 0:00Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.
- 0:06Speaker 2: Fed's reveal their shock move to hunt down the glam
- 0:13Speaker 2: yoga instructor in her love Rivals murder. How'd they do it?
- 0:18Speaker 2: I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories. Thank you for
- 0:22Speaker 2: being with us.
- 0:22Speaker 3: Up and coming star cyclist Mariah Moe Wilson dies after
- 0:26Speaker 3: an ambush. Her body found in her friend's bathroom, bloody
- 0:30Speaker 3: from gunshots.
- 0:31Speaker 4: What happened to Moe Wilson? What happened to Mariah? And
- 0:38Speaker 4: what is.
- 0:39Speaker 2: The secret strategy the RUSS the shot reveal Fed's used
- 0:47Speaker 2: to try and track down her killer.
- 0:50Speaker 4: It all starts here.
- 0:51Speaker 5: Okay, tell me exactly what happened.
- 0:54Speaker 6: My friend is staying with me and I just walked
- 0:56Speaker 6: in and she's laying on the bathroom floor. There's blood everywhere,
- 1:03Speaker 6: and I don't I don't know what happened.
- 1:06Speaker 5: How old is she?
- 1:07Speaker 6: She's twenty six?
- 1:09Speaker 5: Okay. Is she awake?
- 1:12Speaker 7: She's not awake.
- 1:12Speaker 6: There's blood all over her face and all on the
- 1:15Speaker 6: back of her head.
- 1:16Speaker 5: Is she breathing? She no, she's okay, Okay. I'm getting
- 1:24Speaker 5: help started right now, and then I'm going to tell
- 1:26Speaker 5: you exactly what to do. Okay, okay, And That is.
- 1:30Speaker 4: Where it all starts.
- 1:32Speaker 2: A friend of world class biker Mo Mariah found dead
- 1:38Speaker 2: in the friends apartment.
- 1:39Speaker 4: Caitlin Cash. What does this and no woman call reveal?
- 1:44Speaker 4: This is the call.
- 1:46Speaker 2: There you are seeing newly obtained body cam video.
- 1:51Speaker 4: There's the friend.
- 1:54Speaker 2: There's Caitlin Cash who comes home to find the bullet
- 1:59Speaker 2: ridden body of her friend cornered trapped in the bathroom.
- 2:06Speaker 5: Listen, Okay, lay her flat on her back on the
- 2:09Speaker 5: floor and remove anything under her head. Let me know
- 2:12Speaker 5: when that's done.
- 2:13Speaker 7: Yeah, there's nothing under her head.
- 2:16Speaker 5: Okay, she flat up her back on the floor. Yeah, carefully.
- 2:19Speaker 5: I'm going to tell you how to do chest compressions. Caitlyn.
- 2:23Speaker 5: Place the heel of your hand on the breastbone right
- 2:25Speaker 5: between the nipples, and put your other hand on top
- 2:28Speaker 5: of that hand.
- 2:29Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 2:30Speaker 5: Then pump the chest hard and fast, at least twice
- 2:33Speaker 5: per second and two inches deep. Okay, let the chest
- 2:38Speaker 5: come all the way up between pumps. We're gonna do
- 2:40Speaker 5: this until help can take over. Count out loud so
- 2:43Speaker 5: I can count with you. Right between the breastbone exactly, like,
- 2:49Speaker 5: right between the nipples, right in the center of her chest.
- 2:51Speaker 2: And that is the way Mini prosecutors, including myself, and
- 2:54Speaker 2: I was still trying cases start a trial, to take
- 2:57Speaker 2: the jury.
- 2:57Speaker 4: Back to the moment, the moment when.
- 3:00Speaker 2: A body is discovered, that harrowing time, those minutes when
- 3:06Speaker 2: someone's trying to revive the victim.
- 3:09Speaker 4: And of course you want to weigh the credibility.
- 3:12Speaker 2: Of the person that calls nine one one, because very
- 3:15Speaker 2: often statistically the person that finds the body is the killer,
- 3:19Speaker 2: but not so in this case. And that nine one
- 3:23Speaker 2: one call from the friend Caitlin Cash, set off a
- 3:26Speaker 2: series of events that took the FEDS, basically government bounty
- 3:31Speaker 2: hunters all the way around the world to try and
- 3:36Speaker 2: find Moe's killer.
- 3:39Speaker 5: Listen, just pump part of fast and then count out
- 3:41Speaker 5: loud so I can count with you.
- 3:43Speaker 6: One, two, three, four, five, It's.
- 3:47Speaker 5: Good, keep going eleven.
- 3:51Speaker 6: Twelve, thirteen, fourteen, eighteen, thirteen, twenty.
- 3:59Speaker 5: That's good, cat, don't stop, keep going.
- 4:06Speaker 2: You're doing good, the friend, dissolving into tears as she
- 4:09Speaker 2: tries to revive Mariah, the world class dirt biker in
- 4:17Speaker 2: her twenties, up and coming, just hitting the charts. I
- 4:22Speaker 2: remember distinctly when Moe was found murdered, joining me an
- 4:27Speaker 2: all start paddle to make sense of what we are
- 4:30Speaker 2: learning right now. To Troy Slayton, first of all, high
- 4:33Speaker 2: profile criminal defense attorney joining us out of LA it's
- 4:38Speaker 2: pretty hard to even fathom that this could have been
- 4:42Speaker 2: a random killing because Mariah was found wedged in between
- 4:49Speaker 2: the commode and the wall, which is a very tight spot.
- 4:54Speaker 2: Bullets fired at close range, and you know, Troy Slayton,
- 4:59Speaker 2: we could determine that if gunshot residue is found on
- 5:02Speaker 2: the body, which proves that the shot was from at
- 5:06Speaker 2: least thirty six or less inches away, so it was
- 5:10Speaker 2: close range. Slaton, this wasn't no random shooting that was
- 5:14Speaker 2: determined very quickly, Troy.
- 5:16Speaker 8: Just because the shooting is at close range, Nancy, doesn't
- 5:20Speaker 8: mean that this wasn't some sort of breaking.
- 5:23Speaker 4: Maybe she surprised the burglar.
- 5:25Speaker 8: Maybe she surprised somebody who was doing some sort of
- 5:29Speaker 8: home invasion or looking for something, and she came out unexpectedly.
- 5:34Speaker 8: Just because there's no gunshot residue, No, just because there
- 5:37Speaker 8: is gunshot residue rather doesn't mean that this wasn't some
- 5:41Speaker 8: sort of random ac Troy.
- 5:43Speaker 2: Do you ever get tired of just spinning out bs?
- 5:47Speaker 4: Because I guarantee you.
- 5:49Speaker 2: If you answer truthfully, you will admit that when there
- 5:53Speaker 2: are burglaries, typically when a burglar is interrupted.
- 5:57Speaker 4: They run.
- 5:58Speaker 2: They don't want you. They don't want a murder charge.
- 6:00Speaker 2: They want your TV and your VCR. That's what they want.
- 6:02Speaker 2: They want cash, they want drugs, they want jewelry, not you.
- 6:06Speaker 2: Nobody wants to catch It's over a burglary, that's bs.
- 6:10Speaker 8: This is in Austin, and there's a lot of dangerous
- 6:13Speaker 8: folks in Austin.
- 6:15Speaker 2: And this is a lot of dangerous folks, as you say,
- 6:18Speaker 2: all over the country.
- 6:19Speaker 8: There are, but Nancy, Okay, and that made a lot
- 6:23Speaker 8: of sense. This is a closed bathroom. This is a
- 6:27Speaker 8: small space, so any kind of shot inside the bathroom
- 6:32Speaker 8: is going to be a close range by definition. This
- 6:35Speaker 8: wasn't some sort of men.
- 6:36Speaker 2: Pretty established that you're just like, okay, we already said
- 6:40Speaker 2: that it's close range.
- 6:41Speaker 4: We know that you know what.
- 6:43Speaker 2: Moving forward, I want to get off the fact that
- 6:45Speaker 2: this was a targeted shooting, which it was, to.
- 6:51Speaker 4: A shot reveal about how.
- 6:53Speaker 2: The FEDS try to catch down Mariah's killer. But we've
- 6:57Speaker 2: just obtained body can bodycam of the friend, Caitlin Cash.
- 7:04Speaker 2: Let's watch, let's see what police found at the scene.
- 7:09Speaker 9: Awesome, Okay, yeah, I have shot.
- 7:32Speaker 10: Heard any shots and are now no, that's it.
- 7:39Speaker 2: Yeah, see yourself from you are seeing nearly obtained bodycam
- 7:43Speaker 2: footage of what officers find when they first get there.
- 7:47Speaker 4: That's the Austin p D.
- 7:49Speaker 2: And you see the terrified look on the friend, Caitlyn
- 7:52Speaker 2: Cash's face.
- 7:54Speaker 4: Now we get our first clue as to the identity
- 7:58Speaker 4: of the killer. Listen, freak Colin, Yeah, you know, yeah
- 8:09Speaker 4: he went and our friends are I mean like acquaintances.
- 8:17Speaker 2: You don't know what.
- 8:17Speaker 11: Harry Drives is a cyclist, a cyclist, I live in
- 8:21Speaker 11: this area.
- 8:22Speaker 4: He lives in South Austin. Who is Colin Strickland right there?
- 8:28Speaker 2: As you're standing over the dead body of Mo Mariah
- 8:33Speaker 2: the dirt biker, they get the name Colin Strickland. Listen
- 8:38Speaker 2: to Colin Strickland when police go and find him.
- 8:45Speaker 5: So you know Anna.
- 8:51Speaker 11: Mo. Yeah, everybody calls from love man monk last night's
- 9:03Speaker 11: Wilson writer. She's a writer for you. There's really easy
- 9:12Speaker 11: way to say this, sir.
- 9:12Speaker 12: So apparently last night she passed away?
- 9:20Speaker 13: How did.
- 9:22Speaker 14: She?
- 9:23Speaker 5: Right? Now, it's a it's an open investigation, but it
- 9:27Speaker 5: is being investigated as a.
- 9:29Speaker 1: Homicide crime stories with Nancy Grace.
- 9:42Speaker 2: Back to Troy Slayton, the veteran defense attorney joining us
- 9:44Speaker 2: out of LA.
- 9:45Speaker 4: Let's see that again. As I'm talking to Slayton.
- 9:49Speaker 2: This is newly obtained Bodykim footage.
- 9:52Speaker 4: They get the name Colin Strickland.
- 9:55Speaker 2: He's a cyclist at the murder scene from the friend.
- 10:00Speaker 4: They find him. This Troy is when they.
- 10:02Speaker 2: Go tell him and he learns Mariah is dead, watch
- 10:07Speaker 2: him because that's what Ellie law enforcement is doing.
- 10:11Speaker 4: They're watching his reaction. Troy.
- 10:14Speaker 8: Absolutely, they're looking at everything, they're recording it, and they're
- 10:17Speaker 8: talking to him and all of this could be potential evidence.
- 10:21Speaker 4: And he doesn't seem that shocked at all.
- 10:24Speaker 8: He seems kind of nonchalant, his hands on his hips
- 10:27Speaker 8: as he says, oh, do we know how it happened?
- 10:29Speaker 8: At first, after he declines saying that he knows who
- 10:33Speaker 8: Moe is and he knows Darmo.
- 10:35Speaker 2: I disagree with you because he goes, Anna, Mo, yeah,
- 10:41Speaker 2: I see what you're saying. But then pretty quickly he goes,
- 10:43Speaker 2: yes I do. She's a gravel rider. Yes, I do
- 10:46Speaker 2: know her, And then they tell him but I do
- 10:48Speaker 2: agree with you, and I'd like to see it control room.
- 10:52Speaker 4: I want to judge it just like police did.
- 10:54Speaker 2: He seems, as you say, very non chalant as they
- 10:59Speaker 2: are telling him that Mariah, the woman he just had
- 11:03Speaker 2: dinner with in less.
- 11:04Speaker 4: Than twenty four hours before, is dead.
- 11:08Speaker 2: Straight out to Alexis Terzschak, crimeonline dot Com investigative reporter Alexis,
- 11:13Speaker 2: please explain the connection between Mariah Mo the dirt bike champion,
- 11:21Speaker 2: and Colin Strickland. Why are they looking at Colin Strickland.
- 11:25Speaker 15: So Colin is a very successful bike rider, Moe was
- 11:29Speaker 15: also in this world.
- 11:30Speaker 4: They actually had a relationship.
- 11:33Speaker 15: They had been dating for a brief while and then
- 11:37Speaker 15: so then they were together in Austin, Texas, where he lived,
- 11:40Speaker 15: but she was visiting. She had come into town for
- 11:42Speaker 15: a bike race.
- 11:43Speaker 4: They met up.
- 11:44Speaker 15: She was staying with her friend. He took her and
- 11:46Speaker 15: they went swimming in Austin and then hit like a
- 11:48Speaker 15: public swimming pool, and then they went out to dinner together.
- 11:52Speaker 15: And that is why the police are there. Because the
- 11:54Speaker 15: girl that she was staying with, Kate Lacashus. The last
- 11:57Speaker 15: person she was with was Colin. They went swimming, they
- 11:59Speaker 15: went out together. I know they were together. She's staying
- 12:02Speaker 15: with me and so that's why police went to see Colin.
- 12:04Speaker 3: As police retrace Wilson's steps the night she dies, they
- 12:08Speaker 3: learned the person that she had dinner plans with was
- 12:10Speaker 3: Colin Strickland, another cyclist and a past love interest. The
- 12:15Speaker 3: pair first went for a swim at deep Eddie Pool,
- 12:17Speaker 3: then it was off to dinner at Poolberger. After dinner,
- 12:21Speaker 3: Strickland dropped Wilson off at her friend's house and went
- 12:24Speaker 3: home to the house he shares with his girlfriend. A
- 12:29Speaker 3: Texas yoga instructor linked to the shooting death of a
- 12:31Speaker 3: standout cyclist. How did us marshalls track the runaway suspect
- 12:36Speaker 3: and how does a nose job come into play?
- 12:41Speaker 2: Straight back out to Alexis, Tereschuk, explain what we're seeing, Alexis.
- 12:47Speaker 15: So this is a ring camera on a door near
- 12:51Speaker 15: right by the Caitlyn Cash's house. Kaitlyn Cash is the
- 12:54Speaker 15: friend of Mo Wilson, where Moe was staying when she
- 12:56Speaker 15: was in town. What you're seeing is a black jeep Cherokee,
- 12:59Speaker 15: and it is driving by and it's daylight here, so
- 13:02Speaker 15: you can see it drive by, casing the place where
- 13:05Speaker 15: Moe was staying. She's actually staying in the back house
- 13:08Speaker 15: of this main house. It's like an apartment in the
- 13:12Speaker 15: back of the house, and so that shows two different
- 13:14Speaker 15: angles of the same car driving by within seconds of
- 13:18Speaker 15: each other.
- 13:19Speaker 12: Our investigation shows that before her death, Wilson was in
- 13:22Speaker 12: the company of Colin Strickland. The preliminary investigation revealed that
- 13:26Speaker 12: Colin dropped Wilson off at seventeen oh eight Maple Avenue
- 13:29Speaker 12: at approximately eight thirty six pm. Investigators obtained ring camera
- 13:33Speaker 12: video from the neighborhood the capture a vehicle at seventeen
- 13:36Speaker 12: oh eight Maple Avenue within two minutes of the time
- 13:39Speaker 12: Colin dropped off Wilson. It was later discovered that vehicle
- 13:42Speaker 12: was registered to Colin's girlfriend, Caitlin Armstrong.
- 13:45Speaker 4: Straight out to Special Guests joining US.
- 13:47Speaker 2: IRV Brandt, former Senior Inspector at the US Marshall's Service
- 13:52Speaker 2: International Investigations Branch, who has traveled all around the world
- 13:57Speaker 2: hunting down bad guys and glam yoga instructors wanted for murder.
- 14:03Speaker 2: He is the author of a series of mysteries on Amazon,
- 14:08Speaker 2: the Jack Solos. His most recent forever solo, Night of
- 14:12Speaker 2: the Dragon.
- 14:13Speaker 4: IRV Brandt.
- 14:14Speaker 2: She's caught on video circling like a vulture around the
- 14:21Speaker 2: home where the victim is staying, just before Mariah is murdered.
- 14:27Speaker 4: You'd think should be easy to catch, right.
- 14:29Speaker 16: Well, yes, Nancy, you would assume that that you have
- 14:33Speaker 16: identified a suspect. You have them on camera, so it
- 14:38Speaker 16: would be easy, you know, to get that.
- 14:42Speaker 2: Yeah, in a perfect world, your mouth to Gadzier, Right, Well,
- 14:47Speaker 2: it didn't work out that way.
- 14:48Speaker 4: Listen.
- 14:49Speaker 12: The Awesome Police Department's tech intel unit located calling at
- 14:52Speaker 12: his residence and he agreed to an interview. Armstrong was
- 14:56Speaker 12: transported to the main police station and interview. Armstrong was
- 14:59Speaker 12: questioning about her vehicle being in the area as pictured
- 15:02Speaker 12: on the ring camera.
- 15:03Speaker 4: However, she would not confirm or deny.
- 15:05Speaker 12: Being in the area of the murder and quickly terminated
- 15:08Speaker 12: the interview.
- 15:08Speaker 2: Okay, let me understand what I'm hearing, Alexis terschuk Thy
- 15:15Speaker 2: glam you instructor, Caitlin Armstrong. They brought her in for questioning.
- 15:22Speaker 4: Right, they let her go. Why did they let her go?
- 15:27Speaker 15: Well, it was a big mix up on their parts.
- 15:30Speaker 15: So there was an outstanding warrant for her arrest that
- 15:33Speaker 15: because she had not paid the bill for botox treatment
- 15:37Speaker 15: she had, so the police arrested her or brought her
- 15:40Speaker 15: in because of this outstanding warrant. This is the first
- 15:42Speaker 15: thing they bring her in. They put her in this
- 15:44Speaker 15: room to talk to her. Really, they want to talk
- 15:46Speaker 15: about what happened with Mo Wilson, Colin Strickland, her boyfriend instead,
- 15:50Speaker 15: so they say to her, you're not under arrest, you're
- 15:52Speaker 15: here because well, there was this outstanding warrant. However, there
- 15:56Speaker 15: was a mix up on the form and it said
- 15:57Speaker 15: it had a different birthdate, so all the police then thought,
- 16:01Speaker 15: oh no, this isn't the right warrant for her, so
- 16:03Speaker 15: we can't really hold her and we have to let
- 16:05Speaker 15: her go. But they kept trying and trying and trying
- 16:08Speaker 15: to get her to talk about why her car was
- 16:11Speaker 15: seen at Moe Wilson's place and she went home in.
- 16:14Speaker 4: Just a minute.
- 16:15Speaker 2: Elezis Tereschuk too many words, way too many words. So
- 16:22Speaker 2: they find out that her boyfriend, Collins Trickland, has dinner
- 16:27Speaker 2: with Mo, the murder victim, and her car. Yoga guru
- 16:33Speaker 2: is circling the murder, saying just before the murder, two
- 16:38Speaker 2: plus two I think still egals four.
- 16:40Speaker 4: So bottom line.
- 16:41Speaker 2: They get her on an outstanding warrant where she got
- 16:44Speaker 2: botox and went ooh, I've.
- 16:46Speaker 4: Got the wrong credit card. Let me go get the
- 16:47Speaker 4: right one out of the car leaves and now it
- 16:50Speaker 4: comes back.
- 16:51Speaker 2: Then on that warrant they have the wrong DOB and
- 16:55Speaker 2: she slips away. But guess what I've got. Nealie obtained
- 17:00Speaker 2: of her in the interview and listen, now we know
- 17:05Speaker 2: she murdered mo over a Hamburger with her boyfriend, and
- 17:11Speaker 2: this is why she's upset.
- 17:14Speaker 4: Listen, you love.
- 17:15Speaker 12: Foster arrested me in front of my house, in front
- 17:17Speaker 12: of all of my neighbors and carried me in here
- 17:19Speaker 12: in handcuffs.
- 17:19Speaker 15: In front of ye incredibly imagine.
- 17:24Speaker 13: Yeah, and I'm so sorry.
- 17:25Speaker 2: Joining me right now is special guest Josephine Winsle. She
- 17:30Speaker 2: is Crystal Mitchell's mother. Crystal Mitchell was brutally beaten and
- 17:39Speaker 2: murdered by mister Wright R. J. McLeod marine pumped full
- 17:48Speaker 2: of steroids, who murders Crystal and then abscon's leaves and
- 17:55Speaker 2: goes all around the world. Josephine comes out of retire
- 18:01Speaker 2: previous detective and devotes her life to finding her daughter's killer. Josephine,
- 18:08Speaker 2: do you hear what we're saying? Mariah is going down
- 18:12Speaker 2: multiple times in close quarters. Caitlin Armstrong is brought in
- 18:18Speaker 2: on a botox warrant and she's whining that she was
- 18:24Speaker 2: humiliated when she was arrested.
- 18:27Speaker 7: Really, these people are just you know, niceissistic people, and
- 18:32Speaker 7: you know, well through the police oft, isn't it. And
- 18:36Speaker 7: it allowed them to let them go and let her run,
- 18:39Speaker 7: which is ridiculous. I mean, data bird, Na, she's a
- 18:41Speaker 7: still elder somehow, and throw that up, or at least
- 18:45Speaker 7: watched her.
- 18:46Speaker 2: Let me throwand former US Marshall erv a little embarrassed
- 18:54Speaker 2: for law enforcement right now. They let her go, which
- 18:58Speaker 2: led to this wild goose chase all around the country.
- 19:01Speaker 16: Yes, Nancy, it is embarrassing. Anytime that you're conducting an investigation,
- 19:06Speaker 16: like a murder investigation, there's a set of protocols that
- 19:10Speaker 16: you go through and these protocols have to be followed,
- 19:13Speaker 16: and you have a defense attorney on the panel. He'll
- 19:16Speaker 16: tell you that if the police mess up, that's what
- 19:19Speaker 16: they're going to jump on. So they obviously didn't follow
- 19:24Speaker 16: the protocols exactly and ended up having to release her.
- 19:28Speaker 4: You know what, let's.
- 19:30Speaker 2: Just have a little refresher of Brandt. I mean, I
- 19:34Speaker 2: hate to rub it in your nose. How big of
- 19:38Speaker 2: a screw up this is. But to doctor Michelle Dupree,
- 19:42Speaker 2: re now forensic pathologist, he shot to the nation's consciousness
- 19:46Speaker 2: during the Alex Murdog trial and the double murders of
- 19:50Speaker 2: wife Maggie and son Paul, author of Money, Mischief and
- 19:54Speaker 2: Murder the Murdog Dynasty. The rest of the story, but
- 19:56Speaker 2: from my purposes, the author of homicide investigation Field Guy,
- 20:00Speaker 2: doctor Dupre, could you describe Mariah's wounds?
- 20:05Speaker 13: So, yes, Nancy, So they were there was a head woods,
- 20:09Speaker 13: also a wound to the back of the head, and
- 20:12Speaker 13: there was a woman directly to her heart. Basically, they
- 20:15Speaker 13: were range. There was simpling on these wounds.
- 20:19Speaker 4: They were meant to be lethal, Doctor Dupre. Did you
- 20:22Speaker 4: say that Mariah was shot in the heart.
- 20:25Speaker 13: Yes, she was shot in the chest.
- 20:27Speaker 2: In the heart, Doctor Dupree, I find it very difficult
- 20:29Speaker 2: to believe that someone was accidentally or coincidentally shot in
- 20:33Speaker 2: the heart at close range.
- 20:35Speaker 13: No, Nancy, this was a targeted This was intentional. These
- 20:37Speaker 13: woods were meant to be lethal. They were those personal
- 20:40Speaker 13: and they hit the vital places, the head and the heart.
- 20:43Speaker 2: Doctor Jeff Kalsowski joining us. Forensic psychologist, author of Dark Sides.
- 20:49Speaker 2: You can find him on YouTube at doctor Jeff Kaloshowski,
- 20:53Speaker 2: Forensic Psychologist. Doctor Jeff, thank you for being with us.
- 20:57Speaker 2: I'm just a trial lawyer. You're the shrink.
- 21:00Speaker 4: But I know that.
- 21:01Speaker 2: There is a psychological implication when a victim is shot
- 21:05Speaker 2: in the heart, right, And like.
- 21:07Speaker 10: The medical examiner mentioned, this is a very personal murder.
- 21:11Speaker 10: It's a very efficient murder. It's done in the apartment,
- 21:15Speaker 10: in the bathroom, one way in, one way out. There's
- 21:18Speaker 10: no evidence of the struggle. This was an assassination for sure.
- 21:22Speaker 2: Given the fact that Mariah, in her twenties, is gunned down,
- 21:27Speaker 2: wedged into the bathroom in a tiny space.
- 21:32Speaker 4: I want you to hear.
- 21:33Speaker 2: Not only is the glam yoga instructor Kaylin Armstrong whining
- 21:38Speaker 2: that she was quote incredibly humiliated when she was arrested
- 21:43Speaker 2: on her botox warrant. Woman, Yet she's humiliated. Listen to
- 21:49Speaker 2: what she says.
- 21:51Speaker 4: When they were asking her about what happened.
- 21:55Speaker 15: So what were you doing yesterday?
- 21:58Speaker 5: I would like to leave?
- 21:59Speaker 15: I think you would like to leave? Yeah, Okay, talking
- 22:02Speaker 15: to tonight. I don't actually know, and I would like
- 22:06Speaker 15: to leave.
- 22:07Speaker 5: Okay, is there any explanation as far as why the
- 22:12Speaker 5: vehicle would be over there?
- 22:15Speaker 10: I would like to leave.
- 22:16Speaker 6: I'm prettylead.
- 22:17Speaker 3: Okay, you're the jealous love rival stock Moe Wilson and
- 22:23Speaker 3: who called nine one one after the star cyclist was shot.
- 22:27Speaker 4: Sounds so directly Aboven shot her.
- 22:30Speaker 2: It's a personal and look up the girlfriend, Caitlyn Armstrong,
- 22:34Speaker 2: yoga teacher.
- 22:34Speaker 4: You can please the sud.
- 22:36Speaker 11: The murder is the readiest case in Texas.
- 22:38Speaker 4: Well. I got to give it to Lifetime with.
- 22:40Speaker 2: The yoga teacher killer, the Kaitlyn Armstrong story, and they
- 22:44Speaker 2: got that right.
- 22:45Speaker 4: That's pretty much the way prosecutors say.
- 22:48Speaker 2: The whole thing went down before Kaitlin Armstrong vanished into
- 22:53Speaker 2: thin air.
- 22:54Speaker 4: So how did the feds track her?
- 22:59Speaker 2: What rous did they use to try to find the
- 23:04Speaker 2: glam yoga instructor halfway.
- 23:07Speaker 4: Around the world That was from our.
- 23:10Speaker 2: Friends at Lifetime, But as glamorously as that murder was
- 23:16Speaker 2: portrayed in the Kaitlin Armstrong story, the killer yoga teacher.
- 23:22Speaker 2: Let's have a little dose all shot of reality.
- 23:27Speaker 4: Take a listen to this.
- 23:28Speaker 3: The day after cops questioned Armstrong, she unloads her Jeep
- 23:31Speaker 3: Grand Cherokee for twelve thousand dollars to a CarMax in
- 23:34Speaker 3: South Austin, the same jeep that appears on surveillance video
- 23:38Speaker 3: in the area where Moe Wilson was gunned down. Police
- 23:40Speaker 3: realize Kaitlin Armstrong is nowhere to be found. Armstrong is
- 23:44Speaker 3: captured on surveillance footage at the ABIA the Austin Bergstrom
- 23:48Speaker 3: International Airport, boarding a flight bound for Houston, then onto
- 23:51Speaker 3: New York. After tracking Armstrong to New York's LaGuardia Airport,
- 23:55Speaker 3: she seems to vanish into thin air. Armstrong is then
- 23:58Speaker 3: dropped off at Newark Liberty International Airport, but note reservations
- 24:02Speaker 3: were ever found, and it isn't clear if she simply
- 24:05Speaker 3: disappeared again from this airport.
- 24:07Speaker 2: Now, how this woman can appear at various airports and
- 24:12Speaker 2: then vanish from an airport.
- 24:15Speaker 4: Alexis Tereschuk.
- 24:17Speaker 2: She spotted at Lagordia, then she's spotted at Newark, just
- 24:25Speaker 2: walking through the airport, very calmly, as calm as she
- 24:29Speaker 2: was in that police interview, and then she vanishes.
- 24:33Speaker 4: We have her on video and she vanishes.
- 24:36Speaker 15: Alexis so there was no record of her taking any
- 24:40Speaker 15: flights out. After she lands in New York, she goes
- 24:42Speaker 15: from one airport to the other. However, her sister lived
- 24:46Speaker 15: right near this airport, and police then believe that she
- 24:51Speaker 15: took her sister's passport if they look fairly similar to
- 24:54Speaker 15: each other, and led the country to Troy.
- 24:57Speaker 2: Slayton joining us a veteran trial lawyer out of La Troy.
- 25:02Speaker 2: Don't you think it looks worse if and when the
- 25:06Speaker 2: killer is apprehended and they go in front of a jury,
- 25:10Speaker 2: The jury absolutely can hear evidence of flight.
- 25:14Speaker 4: They can hear that.
- 25:16Speaker 2: This woman somehow managed to elude authorities. They'll find out
- 25:21Speaker 2: about the prior botox warrant. They'll see the interviews where
- 25:26Speaker 2: she wanted to leave. That it's not a comment on
- 25:28Speaker 2: your right to remain silent. She wanted to leave. They
- 25:31Speaker 2: can hear that. And so saying oh, yeah, I was
- 25:34Speaker 2: at Walmart, I was at Costco.
- 25:36Speaker 4: No, no, no. When she's asked.
- 25:38Speaker 2: Where were you at the time Mariah was gunned down,
- 25:42Speaker 2: she asked to leave, they'll hear that. Then they'll hear
- 25:46Speaker 2: she disappeared from Newark Careport.
- 25:50Speaker 8: Not only will they hear it, but the judge will
- 25:52Speaker 8: give an instruction that says that evidence that flight and
- 25:57Speaker 8: running is consciousness of guilt, and they may use that
- 26:02Speaker 8: evidence as consciousness of guilt. But you know, look, I'm
- 26:06Speaker 8: not in the business of defending the police here. But
- 26:08Speaker 8: the police did the absolute right thing in not holding
- 26:12Speaker 8: her on a warrant with a wrong birthdate, because we
- 26:15Speaker 8: don't want to hold people who are not the right
- 26:18Speaker 8: people on wrong warrants, not even for one second. So
- 26:21Speaker 8: the police did the absolute right thing.
- 26:23Speaker 4: The warrant wasn't wrong, the dob was wrong.
- 26:26Speaker 2: But I appreciate you parsing words and splitting hairs.
- 26:30Speaker 8: That's what we do, Nancy, to make sure that not
- 26:33Speaker 8: even one innocent person suffers the wrath of the government.
- 26:38Speaker 2: You know what. I appreciate you climbing up yet again
- 26:42Speaker 2: on your soapbox.
- 26:42Speaker 4: But let's be honest about the law.
- 26:46Speaker 2: Where there is a minor defect in a warrant, it's
- 26:49Speaker 2: been uphild by the US Supreme Court, remember them up
- 26:52Speaker 2: in Washington, the US Supreme Court. The US Supreme Court
- 26:57Speaker 2: has ruled that a minor defect in a warrant, be
- 26:59Speaker 2: it or rest, does not negate the validity.
- 27:02Speaker 4: Of the warrant. You also been a later case to
- 27:06Speaker 4: refresh your recollection.
- 27:07Speaker 8: This is the wrong birth date.
- 27:09Speaker 4: So there's a lot of people with that same digit.
- 27:13Speaker 2: By one digit, same name, same description, same height, same weight,
- 27:17Speaker 2: same finger prints, same everything.
- 27:18Speaker 4: Just the DNB is offer.
- 27:20Speaker 8: I'm friends with four Troy Slayton's on Facebook because I
- 27:23Speaker 8: thought it was funny. And so just because somebody has
- 27:28Speaker 8: the same name doesn't mean that it's the same person.
- 27:30Speaker 2: You know what, Troy, I'm so happy for you that
- 27:33Speaker 2: you have friends now on Facebook. But to Josephine Wentzel
- 27:37Speaker 2: joining us, her daughter was murdered Crystal Mitchell.
- 27:42Speaker 4: And her killer jacked up on steroids.
- 27:46Speaker 2: Goes halfway around and with a serious rap sheet of
- 27:50Speaker 2: domestic violence, flees and goes halfway around the world.
- 27:54Speaker 4: What do you make of it, Josephine, that.
- 27:56Speaker 2: Caitlin Armstrong just disappears in New York's Liberty Never see
- 28:01Speaker 2: it again.
- 28:01Speaker 7: It was a liner, like you said, a minor defect. Okay,
- 28:04Speaker 7: it was a very serious case. What would it cost
- 28:07Speaker 7: her for inconvenience if they held her and made the
- 28:11Speaker 7: phone call to find out is this the person or not?
- 28:13Speaker 7: It was a very serious case. Rather than saying Oh wow,
- 28:16Speaker 7: you fit the profile and everything, but you have their
- 28:18Speaker 7: own data birth so we'll let you go. And you know,
- 28:22Speaker 7: there's nothing on the borders to stop criminals from fleeing
- 28:25Speaker 7: into other countries. So nobody's alerted that this person wanted
- 28:28Speaker 7: it is going to flee the country. And that's another
- 28:31Speaker 7: issue that I'm pushing, by the way, with the Marshals
- 28:33Speaker 7: and with the States, and we're taking it to Washington
- 28:36Speaker 7: about having having an alert to alert as when these
- 28:39Speaker 7: people are going to cross over when they wanted.
- 28:42Speaker 2: And then investigators, basically US bounty hunters, the US Marshals,
- 28:49Speaker 2: who I hold in great esteem, do some old fashioned
- 28:55Speaker 2: police work.
- 28:56Speaker 14: Investigators turned to old fashioned police work, managing to track
- 28:59Speaker 14: down the phone number of an American businessman they believe
- 29:02Speaker 14: had connected with Armstrong. At some point, he was sent
- 29:05Speaker 14: pictures of Caitlin and says he's seen her, but she
- 29:07Speaker 14: doesn't look like that anymore. She had cut her hair
- 29:10Speaker 14: and dyed it red, and she's going by the name Beth.
- 29:13Speaker 14: He said he met her at a yoga studio in Jocko.
- 29:16Speaker 2: Now to find Caitlin Armstrong, the so called glam yoga teacher, how.
- 29:22Speaker 4: Did she vanish?
- 29:24Speaker 2: In the airport at Liberty International that's in Newark. How
- 29:27Speaker 2: did that happen? The place is like a casino in Vegas.
- 29:30Speaker 2: It's covered, it's blanketed and security cameras. Yet she did
- 29:36Speaker 2: it straight out to IRV Brandt. LA law enforcement then
- 29:41Speaker 2: gets fixated on the fact that Caitlin Armstrong's sister lost
- 29:48Speaker 2: her passport.
- 29:49Speaker 4: Then what happened?
- 29:50Speaker 16: Well, Nancy, that's that's the break in the case. When
- 29:54Speaker 16: you're hunting a fugitive, you're looking at family members, and
- 29:59Speaker 16: the sisters said that her passport was lost. Well, a
- 30:03Speaker 16: search of the records of the flight records show that
- 30:07Speaker 16: there was a flight in her that she booked a
- 30:10Speaker 16: flight in her name to Costa Rica, and that led
- 30:14Speaker 16: investigators to believe that it was actually Caitlin Armstrong and
- 30:19Speaker 16: not her sister. In Costa Rica.
- 30:27Speaker 2: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, the Feds shock move to
- 30:36Speaker 2: hunt down the glam yoga guru and the love rival murder.
- 30:43Speaker 2: It's revealed how did they get her listen.
- 30:47Speaker 14: Us Marshalls used one of their own female operatives going
- 30:49Speaker 14: to yoga classes to see if they could spot Armstrong.
- 30:53Speaker 14: Turns out people had seen Armstrong at local spots in
- 30:56Speaker 14: San Theresa, but they didn't realize who she was. She
- 30:59Speaker 14: was hiding in planes using different names like Beth and Ari.
- 31:03Speaker 14: Investigators turned to local Facebook page, taking out an ad
- 31:06Speaker 14: for a yoga instructor to see what would happen. After
- 31:09Speaker 14: a week, a reply identifying herself as a yoga instructor
- 31:13Speaker 14: pretending to be a tourist, and investigator goes into a
- 31:16Speaker 14: hostel trying to get a good look at the woman.
- 31:18Speaker 14: She resembles Caitlin, but not one hundred percent. As he
- 31:21Speaker 14: got close to the woman, he sees a bandage on
- 31:24Speaker 14: her nose and her lips are swollen, but the eyes
- 31:27Speaker 14: are the same. Now investigators know why they have had
- 31:30Speaker 14: so much trouble finding Armstrong. She had been getting plastic surgery.
- 31:34Speaker 2: IRV brand This is second verse, same as the first
- 31:37Speaker 2: again and I'm talking about the killer r J.
- 31:41Speaker 4: Mccloyd.
- 31:42Speaker 2: What is Kaitlin Armstrong doing in Costa Rica. She's teaching
- 31:48Speaker 2: yoga ding ding ding ding, same thing with McLeod. So
- 31:53Speaker 2: let me understand IRV Brandt and the case. And she
- 31:57Speaker 2: with Caitlin Armstrong, the yoga teacher. The US Marshals, the
- 32:02Speaker 2: FEDS actually use a female operative and what does the
- 32:06Speaker 2: operative do.
- 32:07Speaker 16: Well, the operative is looking for the fugitive in an
- 32:12Speaker 16: area that the fugitive is known to be comfortable with,
- 32:16Speaker 16: and that would be teaching yoga, So the spots that
- 32:22Speaker 16: yoga teachers would frequent and that area in general.
- 32:28Speaker 2: I guess it's not a huge leap to look for
- 32:31Speaker 2: her teaching yoga. And then they run into the American
- 32:36Speaker 2: businessman where they track him down that states he had
- 32:39Speaker 2: seen her, but she didn't look the.
- 32:41Speaker 4: Same, and that he had met her in a yoga studio.
- 32:47Speaker 4: So again not a far leap.
- 32:50Speaker 2: But to doctor Michelle Dupree, she was barely recognizable because
- 32:54Speaker 2: of plastic surgery that had to hurt.
- 32:56Speaker 13: Yes, Nancy absolutely, and you know the swelling on the face,
- 33:00Speaker 13: all of this. She's gonna heal, but she is gonna
- 33:02Speaker 13: look different, and she's going to also confuse any facial recognition.
- 33:06Speaker 2: Doctor Jeff Kalashwski, the length this woman went to, that's
- 33:10Speaker 2: going to impress a jury.
- 33:11Speaker 4: What does that tell you, Well.
- 33:12Speaker 10: It's going to impress a jury that she was obviously
- 33:16Speaker 10: being deceitful trying to hide her identity. And then the
- 33:19Speaker 10: big question is why did you feel I need to
- 33:21Speaker 10: do that, and that's the kind of question the jury's
- 33:23Speaker 10: gonna ask.
- 33:24Speaker 4: IRV Brandt? Is this common?
- 33:27Speaker 2: IRV Brandt has spent his entire career chasing down the
- 33:30Speaker 2: bad guys with the US Marshall Service. He's traveled all
- 33:34Speaker 2: over the world for them and is now a successful author.
- 33:39Speaker 2: I wonder who Jack Solo could be. But that said,
- 33:44Speaker 2: we see it in the movies Earth. But is it
- 33:47Speaker 2: common for wanted murderers to actually have plastic surgery, sometimes.
- 33:52Speaker 4: Even trying to get rid of their fingerprints?
- 33:54Speaker 16: It is Nancy, someone who knows that they're being They
- 34:00Speaker 16: know that they're being followed, that people are looking for them,
- 34:04Speaker 16: that their faces have been on the news. The most
- 34:08Speaker 16: common thing uh with fugitive is to change your facial appearance.
- 34:13Speaker 16: Whether it's cutting off all your hair if you have
- 34:16Speaker 16: long hair, it's dyeing your hair, if you have red hair,
- 34:19Speaker 16: maybe changing it to brown hair, to you know, trying
- 34:23Speaker 16: to change some of your facial features. And it usually
- 34:28Speaker 16: starts with the nose and to throw off facial recognition.
- 34:34Speaker 16: Anything that you can do to hide from the person
- 34:38Speaker 16: that you were before.
- 34:39Speaker 2: Doctor Duprie, this is very extensive surgery. Did you see
- 34:43Speaker 2: those shots and then she tried to tell somebody she
- 34:45Speaker 2: was hitting the nose with a surfboard. Okay, what did
- 34:49Speaker 2: all that surgery entail, Doctor Duprie.
- 34:51Speaker 13: Nancy, that's a lot, not to mention the expense of it,
- 34:54Speaker 13: but you're basically reconstructing major portions of her face. First
- 34:58Speaker 13: of all, this took a long time, and secondly, it
- 35:01Speaker 13: was expensive.
- 35:02Speaker 2: Alexis Terresschuk, how was she living? Wasn't she in a
- 35:06Speaker 2: youth hostel?
- 35:07Speaker 5: She was.
- 35:07Speaker 15: She was living in a small beach town in Costa
- 35:09Speaker 15: Rica and just a hostel, which is really less than
- 35:13Speaker 15: a hotel.
- 35:14Speaker 4: And she was really.
- 35:15Speaker 15: Running out of money. So she had sold her car
- 35:17Speaker 15: for twelve thousand dollars. She sold it, you know, the
- 35:19Speaker 15: day after she murdered mo. But that money was running
- 35:24Speaker 15: out because she spent seventy five hundred of that on
- 35:26Speaker 15: plastic surgery in Mexico to change her So she was.
- 35:29Speaker 7: Looking for a job.
- 35:31Speaker 15: She was trying to get a job in the hostel.
- 35:32Speaker 15: She was trying to get jobs anywhere around town. But
- 35:35Speaker 15: the only thing that she was hoping to try to
- 35:37Speaker 15: do was maybe to get a job as a yoga instructor.
- 35:39Speaker 15: So when there was an ad for a yoga instructor.
- 35:42Speaker 15: She immediately jumped at this.
- 35:45Speaker 3: A new country, a new nose, and a new job,
- 35:48Speaker 3: all pieces of a puzzle that leads to the international
- 35:52Speaker 3: arrest of her murderer.
- 35:55Speaker 2: The fads shock moved to hount down the glam yoga
- 35:59Speaker 2: guru in her love Rivals murder.
- 36:01Speaker 4: What do they do? They got a.
- 36:04Speaker 2: Female operative to go undercover and go into the yoga
- 36:09Speaker 2: scene in Costa Rica looking for a needle in a haystack.
- 36:13Speaker 2: After an American businessman says he's seen Caitlin Armstrong but
- 36:18Speaker 2: she quote looked different that he had met her in
- 36:22Speaker 2: a yoga studio. So they send this female operative. I
- 36:26Speaker 2: got to hand it to him or Brandt. They made
- 36:28Speaker 2: good after the big booboo of a local law enforcement
- 36:32Speaker 2: letting her slip through their fingers. After her botox warrant
- 36:36Speaker 2: and a murder, they get a female operative to go
- 36:40Speaker 2: undercover all around Costa Rica until finally she sees a
- 36:45Speaker 2: woman that kind of resembles Caitlin Armstrong. It was pretty
- 36:50Speaker 2: smart herv Then they placed a yoga.
- 36:52Speaker 16: Ad uh Nancy tricky us Marshalls thinking outside the box,
- 36:57Speaker 16: and they used a an investigative tool ruse or lure,
- 37:03Speaker 16: whatever you want to call it, it's very common technique
- 37:07Speaker 16: and to work.
- 37:08Speaker 2: Doctor Jeff Kelshewski joining US forensics psychologist and author of
- 37:12Speaker 2: Dark Sides, Doctor Jeff.
- 37:14Speaker 4: The way she managed to talk her.
- 37:16Speaker 2: Way out of that police interview, the way she managed
- 37:21Speaker 2: to fenangle her sister's passport and go all around the country,
- 37:25Speaker 2: get plastic surgery in Costa Rica, and hide out under
- 37:29Speaker 2: an assumed name.
- 37:31Speaker 4: But she answered an ad for a yoga teacher.
- 37:35Speaker 10: Right, I mean, the termine narcissism came up. And how
- 37:38Speaker 10: many times on these programs that we talked about killers
- 37:41Speaker 10: being tripped up by their own narcissism. She probably thought
- 37:45Speaker 10: she got away with it. She thought she took all
- 37:47Speaker 10: the right steps, and she thought she was in the clear,
- 37:51Speaker 10: and then she opened herself up and made herself more vulnerable.
- 37:55Speaker 10: And kudos to law enforcement. You know, one important rule
- 37:58Speaker 10: is to know yourself respect well. The obviously knew a
- 38:02Speaker 10: lot about her, and they knew what kind of bait
- 38:04Speaker 10: could pull her out from the shadows and make her
- 38:07Speaker 10: vulnerable and expose herself where they could apprehend her.
- 38:11Speaker 2: You know, doctor Jeff, you would think someone that had
- 38:14Speaker 2: been this wily like her, like R. J. McLeod would
- 38:19Speaker 2: recognize a trap like an ad for a yoga teacher.
- 38:23Speaker 2: You want a yoga teacher, go to the yoga studio.
- 38:25Speaker 2: It's one walk away. How many are there in Costa Rica?
- 38:28Speaker 4: So long story short, they both fail.
- 38:32Speaker 2: For it, and I believe it's arrogance, as you say, narcissism.
- 38:36Speaker 10: It's a false confidence. I'm so wonderful, I'm so tricky,
- 38:41Speaker 10: I'm so good at what I just did. I'm in
- 38:43Speaker 10: the clear. A false confidence that came back to bite her.
- 38:47Speaker 2: I mean, Josephine Winsel, all those years you were waiting
- 38:52Speaker 2: for the US marshals to find your daughter's killer.
- 38:57Speaker 4: How did that feel to you?
- 39:00Speaker 7: It was cruciating and it was very frustrating, especially when
- 39:05Speaker 7: COVID happened, and I knew that even if we got
- 39:09Speaker 7: a tip, then nobody's going to go over there to
- 39:12Speaker 7: look for them. It was very frustrating. I did a
- 39:16Speaker 7: lot of you know, in between time I searching for him,
- 39:19Speaker 7: I was writing a lot to a Congress, the White House.
- 39:22Speaker 7: I was just trying to shake them up in DC
- 39:24Speaker 7: to like do something here. And then it got to
- 39:27Speaker 7: the point where we were getting a lot of tips
- 39:29Speaker 7: in and the embassy couldn't respond, so they were like,
- 39:32Speaker 7: We're not going to respond to all of your tips.
- 39:34Speaker 7: So then it became even more frustrating, and I'm like,
- 39:37Speaker 7: why am I wasting all my time in front of
- 39:39Speaker 7: the computer searching it? Then I going to check the
- 39:41Speaker 7: gifts out and so it was very, very frustrating. But
- 39:45Speaker 7: I had to credit the marshals because they were patient,
- 39:48Speaker 7: they were consistent, and they were trying everything they could
- 39:52Speaker 7: to respond to all my tips considering they were not
- 39:56Speaker 7: in that country, so it was a very difficult process.
- 40:00Speaker 2: In case you're wondering what happens after Kaitlin Armstrong is
- 40:04Speaker 2: apprehended in Costa Rica and extradited.
- 40:07Speaker 1: Home, well.
- 40:10Speaker 4: Ken a Leopard ever changed their spots listen.
- 40:14Speaker 3: Kaitlyn Armstrong has been locked up in the Travis County
- 40:17Speaker 3: Correction Complex since she was brought back from Costa Rica,
- 40:20Speaker 3: But she didn't just sit in her sell and gain weight.
- 40:22Speaker 3: Kaitlin Armstrong decided to take advantage of the time she
- 40:25Speaker 3: had in county by working out a lot. Just weeks
- 40:30Speaker 3: before her trial was set to start, Armstrong claimed to
- 40:33Speaker 3: have an injury and she was allowed to go to
- 40:35Speaker 3: an outside medical appointment Armstrong requested that leg restraints not
- 40:39Speaker 3: be used on her, and that was granted. Armstrong was
- 40:42Speaker 3: escorted to her appointment by two deputies, and when the
- 40:45Speaker 3: office visit was over, as she was headed back to
- 40:47Speaker 3: the car to go back to jail, Kaitlin Armstrong took
- 40:51Speaker 3: off running. The deputies gave chase.
- 40:53Speaker 2: That's right, Kaitlin Armstrong actually running. She faked a doctor's
- 40:58Speaker 2: appointment and makes an escape attempt.
- 41:02Speaker 4: Some things never change.
- 41:04Speaker 2: Caitlin Armstrong convicted in the murder of Mariah and.
- 41:12Speaker 4: I advise whatever CI is holding her now keep a
- 41:16Speaker 4: watch on her.
- 41:18Speaker 2: Nancy Grace signing off, goodbye friend.